Scholarship: The University of Adelaide Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Divisional Scholarship

Clementine is completing a PhD (Medicine) focusing on readmissions following cardiovascular hospitalisations in Australia and New Zealand. She is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian. Through her research, Clementine aims to improve the quality of care that each individual cardiology patient receives.

Clementine is a 2018-2019 BHI Student Representative.

Clementine is using data linkage and big data techniques to determine rates of readmission and mortality in Australia and New Zealand. Clementine has conducted a pilot study to investigate one factor believed to be involved in these readmissions – sleep deprivation during the initial hospitalisation.

Clementine is passionate about improving outcomes in patients with cardiovascular diseases. As part of her honours project, Clementine ran the Australian component of the Patient-centered Outcomes Related to Treatment practices in peripheral Arterial disease: an Investigating Trajectories (PORTRAIT) Registry, an internationally led project. Her Honours thesis focused on the health status of Australian patients with peripheral artery disease.

2015: Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours), Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide (based at the Basil Hetzel Institute, TQEH). Thesis title: Is there a relationship between Ankle Brachial Index and Health Status in patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease? Supervisors: Professor John Beltrame, Dr Prue Cowled and Professor Robert Fitridge.

2008: Bachelor of Science (majoring in Physiology and Anatomical Sciences), the University of Adelaide.